Over Memorial Day weekend, I was lucky enough to attend the pre-grand opening of the Sibley...
Twin Cities Area
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
On Thursday, December 9, 1937, the badly burned body of Ruth Margaret Munson was found in the...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Saint Paul Hotel
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Swinford Townhomes
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Wilder Public Baths
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Greater Minnesota
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Rumors of copper riches hidden in the North Shore's streams and hillsides had excited the...
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Unless you’re looking for it or know it’s there, it might be easy to drive right by...
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Welcome To Dotson
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Old Brewery In Preston
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Meyer School In St Augusta
Moving Old Hibbing
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
State Theater In Hutchinson
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Visiting Golden Gate
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Oxford Mill Ruin
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Endion School In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The End of the Line in Currie
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Remembering Quadna Resort
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
The Old School In Wolverton
Bend in the River Regional Park
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Florence Town Hall
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
The Le Sueur Theater
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Finding The Past In Swatara
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hollywood Town Hall
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Exploring Sandstone
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Little Falls Depot
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Historic Franconia
The Little Marais Inn
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Welcome to Hanska
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Green Lake Mounds
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Exploring Ottawa
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Endion Depot In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Historic Wasioja
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Red Wing Iron Works
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Ruins of Sawyer School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Taylor House In Le Sueur
The Duluth Homestead Project
Welcome To Cobden
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hanover Bridge
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Milford Monument
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Dead Good Walks
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
The first group of settlers in this section of Brown County was made up of eastern Yankees. Iberia...
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
The first burial took place at St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in 1884. The cemetery is located about three...
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Maple Hill Cemetery
Chippewa City Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Golden Gate Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Edith Robbins was the eldest daughter of Robbinsdale’s founder Andrew B. Robbins. She...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Winter At The Lamar School
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Carnegie Library In Watertown
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown